Friday, September 25, 2015

Readiness!!!

Sitting in his riding
office in Montreal, Cotler says he didn’t like C-51, despite ultimately
voting for it. The Liberals, he says, supported C-51 largely out of
political considerations. “The party voted against the multilateral
mission [against ISIS]. Then comes C-51. Harper’s saying, ‘I’m the guy
who’s standing up to terror.’ If, after the ISIS vote, the Libs had been
against C-51, then Harper would have said, ‘You can’t really trust
these Liberals; they’re soft on terror, soft on crime,’ ” Cotler says.
Trudeau, Cotler says, was sure the Conservatives would be open to
compromise on the bill. To no one else’s surprise, they weren’t. “Justin
is a decent guy. He’s not yet realized how these guys operate, maybe,”
Cotler says.

Which raises the question: shouldn't somebody running to be Prime Minister have at least some passing awareness of the events of the past decade in Canadian politics?